Why did we have to make this decision right now? Couldn't we have waited? What happens if Rudy gets a month long injury? Or comes back exhausted from the Olympics?
Because to trade him into cap space a team has to have cap space. There won’t be any teams with that much space going into the season. Once Charlotte got Plumlee we were kinda screwed if the mandate was to get off of salary.
Flexibility going into FA. That why it's also prime trade season.
OKC has to fill space or pay fines. They are miles underneath though. We had time for this deal.
When you trade a player, I think the rule is that you either have to wait one year or until his current deal expires until you can re-sign him. The league made this rule when Zydrunas Ilgauskas was traded from the Cavs, bought out and re-signed with the Cavs in a matter of a couple of weeks IIRC.
Favors is done with Utah and we are done with him. We should have traded him years and years ago instead of yanking him around like this. The guy could have been a borderline all star center but we and Derrick insisted on playing PF.
There aren't many teams with cap space that can absorb a massive contract without sending something in return. It dries up quickly before FA and the price for shedding salary will likely go up for contending teams. It had to be done sooner rather than later.
If we are keeping Conley, we are not getting out of the luxury tax.
Exactly. So I don't want to hear another person saying "we are going all in" for a title. You don't shed an asset with a useful player if you are "all in".
It didn’t have to happen though.
